On 2013-02-20, Matthias Appel <appel.matth...@gmail.com> wrote: > *ZFS was open source (FSF would say free) until Oracle acquired Sun
The source was available, but it relies on Sun/Oracle patents. The CDDL license it was provided under allows use of those patents, but only subject to certain conditions, and there are indemnification clauses that some projects cannot agree to. > *IMHO ZFS hast to be reversed, just like NTFS. There has to be > compatibility between Oracles ZFS and the free versions of it. Then you don't have a license to use the patents.
